metreme‧tre British English, meter American English /ˈmiːtə $ -ər/ ●●● S2 W3 noun 
WORD ORIGINmetre
Origin:
1 1700-1800 French mètre, from Greek metron ‘measure’2 800-900 Latin metrum, from Greek metronEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Last night we camped a metre short of the border, a beautiful spot between the upper and lower Sorjus lakes.
- Prices start at about £100 per metre for standard models; fan-assisted convection designs are also available.
- Rivermen were surprised at the force of the bore on a 9.3 metre tide, nearly a metre below maximum at Sharpness.
- The doctors have said that she will not grow to more than a metre in height.
- The largest column, which was at Phaistos, had a diameter approaching 1 metre.
- The mature shell size also varies from small species a few centimetres across to giants of a metre or more in diameter.
- The pit was about a metre and a half deep.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The river is 2 kilometres across. The boat measured 15 feet in length and 4 feet in breadth. 75,000 million cubic metres of gas Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter. I asked for an extra two weeks to finish the work. None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height. Sunflowers can grow to a height of 15 feet. The aircraft was flying at a height of 10,000 metres. waves up to 40 metres high a ten-foot high statue The bridge is 140 feet long. There are more than a dozen golf courses within a 15-mile radius of St Andrews. We must have walked ten miles today. I walked all the way to San Rafael. The river is more than fifty yards wide. It’s about six metres in width.
The river is 2 kilometres across. The boat measured 15 feet in length and 4 feet in breadth. (=one in a running race)· She's the world 3,000 metres champion.
75,000 million cubic metres of gas (=deep) a channel of two feet in depth
a channel of two feet in depth Draw a circle six centimetres in diameter. I asked for an extra two weeks to finish the work. None of these sculptures was less than three metres in height. Sunflowers can grow to a height of 15 feet. The aircraft was flying at a height of 10,000 metres. waves up to 40 metres high a ten-foot high statue· These leaves have a length of about 7 cm.
· A blue whale can reach a length of 100 feet.
The bridge is 140 feet long.· He finished first in the 100 metres race.
There are more than a dozen golf courses within a 15-mile radius of St Andrews. We must have walked ten miles today. I walked all the way to San Rafael. The river is more than fifty yards wide. It’s about six metres in width.· We won by 23 points.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· You then need to multiply this by your company's charge for each cubic metre of water.· Charges differ throughout the country but 40p per cubic metre is a rough guide.· Levels of sulphur dioxide in the air reached 2,400 microgrammes per cubic metre over the weekend.· If all goes to plan, the sail will collapse into a box less than a cubic metre in volume.· The new limit is one billionth of a gram per cubic metre.· The consultants reckon that pumping water from depths of 20 metres would cost less than 50 cents per cubic metre with solar power.· We each drink about one cubic metre of water a year and use between 50 and 100 for domestic purposes.
· Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.· Two years later their numbers were still no higher than 2,000 per square metre.· The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall.· Each aluminium can you collect will buy one square metre of tropical forest which will be preserved for future generations.· They are present on every branch in a rainforest and every square metre of uncultivated soil.· The project's treatments cost as little as 54p per square metre.· Order the terrazzo by the square metre.· Do we mean something like one sand grain every square metre of sea-floor per minute, per day, per year?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the 100-metres/400-metres hurdles► 3 metres/5 miles etc short of something► five feet/two metres etc square
1[countable] (written abbreviation m) the basic unit for measuring length in the metric system2[countable, uncountable] the arrangement of sounds in poetry into patterns of strong and weak beats- A square mile of orchards shows no sign of anyone picking anything.
- Half a dozen females share a nest, a simple hollow within the square mile or so of a male's territory.
- Having lived in Deptford all his life, Albie knew every jabber, snorter, speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles.
- It would cover four square miles and be the second biggest in the country.
- Researchers have found the soil to be infested with around 500 grubs per square metre instead of the usual five or so.
- The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
- The Buxton Springs are surrounded by 550 square miles of spectacular natural landscape.
- This system was probably capable of supporting about 400 people per square mile.